Gerçek Bir Hikaye by Lucian of Samosata5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 170 CE), recounting the words of a speaker in a town square after a man named Proteus had thrown himself into a fire: Several apologists, looking for evidence for the existence of Jesus, have cited the following statement by Lucian (ca. It starts out with a skeptic named Tychiades who gets in an argument with some friends about alternative medicine and then they start telling him bat-crazy stories involving statues that come to life, haunted houses, and a whole host of other nonsense, culminating with the famous story of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." He also wrote a bunch of work making fun of traditional Greek religious beliefs including Dialogues of the Gods, Zeus the Opera Star (no, really), and The Parliament of the Gods. Another fun work he wrote is The Lover of Lies, a dialogue making fun of belief in the supernatural. It's regarded by many as the first known work of science fiction. Lucian's most famous work is A True Story, a satire against tall tales, containing space travel, aliens, and interplanetary war. ![]()
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